ODESSA, TEXAS — Levi Shandrew entered Sunday's game with the score tied at 4-all and the bases loaded with one out. The senor right hander preserved the tie, which allowed the Eastern New Mexico University baseball team (14-6) to explode for 11 unanswered runs, en-route to a 15-4 win over UT Permian Basin (3-21). The Greyhounds also stole six bases in the game, to set a new ENMU single-season mark with 101.

In the Series

• Eastern won the road series 3-1, and the teams will meet again at Greyhound Baseball Field in early May
• ENMU holds a 12-5 edge in the overall series and has won 12 of the last 14 meetings
• The Hounds are 8-5 on the road in the series

Shandrew's Performance

• Shandrew entered the game in the fifth inning, with a 4-4 tie, one out and the bases loaded
• He fanned Tony Oslovar and induced a fly ball from Cooper Coe to centerfield to escape the jam
• Over Shandrew's 3.2 innings, UTPB stranded four runners in scoring position
• He blanked the Falcons on one hit and struck out four

In the Game

• Alex DeLaCruz drove in the runs first game on a one-out double in the third inning
• He would later score on a wild pitch to give Eastern a 2-0 lead
• Two walks to lead off the top of the fourth, followed by a Jesse Becton double, gave Eastern a 4-0 advantage
• A Skyler Palermo sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth followed by a RBI single from Coe pulled the Falcons within 4-2
• Alex Wixson tied the game with a two-run single in the fifth
• UT Permian Basin sent eight batters to the plate in the inning, with Shandrew retiring the final two
• Eastern capitalized on a two UTPB errors in the seventh and staged a two-out rally to seize the lead for good, 6-4 on Julian Heredia's two-run single to left field
• Prior to scoring Eastern's sixth run, Malcolm Smith registered the team's 98^th stolen base of the season to match the record set in 1995
• The Hounds sent 10 batters to the plate in the eight and scored five runs in an inning highlighted by Nicholas Ankerman's two-run homer
• Zach Shank registered ENMU's 99^th stolen base of the season, and Smith followed with the 100^th
• Heredia cracked the team's second grand slam of the season for the final margin

In the Numbers

• ENMU was 6-for-7 on stolen bases in the game
• DelaCruz batted 3-for-5 with three doubles to tie for second on ENMU's single-game list
• Heredia drove in six runs to tie for fifth on ENMU's single-game list
• Becton had a double and triple for the Hounds
• ENMU drew 11 walks in the game
• Wixson batted 2-for-3 for the Falcons

Up Next

• The Greyhounds will open Lone Star Conference play at #23 West Texas A&M, on Friday
• The series will begin with a single game at 5:30 p.m. MT